
The ICE 2026 Organising Committee invites high quality papers to be presented at this premier international event. Submissions should contribute to a substantial, original and previously unpublished research in the topics of the conference:
The topics of interest are examples, other topics that fit into the areas of the conference are welcome.
ENGINEERING
TECHNOLOGY
INNOVATION
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
27th Feb 2026: Full Paper Submission
15th Apr 2026: Author notification
29th May 2026: Camera-ready version
22th-24th June 2026: ICE Conference
This includes, but is not limited to:
The review committee is available to provide feedback on paper ideas.
For any questions, please contact the secretariat at info@ice-conference.org.

Special Tracks at ICE 2026 provide a focused forum on strategic and emerging topics, bringing together research, innovation, and expert perspectives within a coherent thematic framework. Each Special Track is coordinated by a dedicated committee of chairs and typically combines scientific paper sessions, interactive workshops, and an expert panel discussion. This integrated format encourages in-depth technical exchange, community building, and dialogue between academia, industry, and policy, fostering both scientific excellence and practical impact around the selected topic.


Special sessions in ICE have demonstrated to be crucial means for deepening knowledge, staying updated on the latest trends, fostering collaborations, and broadening perspectives within a specific field or topic. They contribute significantly to the advancement and evolution of research and innovation.
The ICE 2026 Organising Committee invites proposals for conference special sessions focused on specific topics related to the conference theme.
Conference special sessions should explain the means for soliciting and selecting contributions, proposing an independent review committee.
For a position of larger visibility in the Conference and respective Committee, please submit your proposal to organize and to be chair for a "track" of sessions under the scope of one of the major ICE/IEEE ITMC 2026 conference topcis.
Please fill out the Special Session template and send your proposal to info@ice-conference.org with the subject "Special Session Proposal".
30th Jan 2026: Special Sessions proposals
27th Feb 2026:Special Sessions Acceptance Notification
29 May 2026: Special Sessions Camera-ready copies
22th-24th June 2026: ICE Special Sessions

SS01 - Special Session: Smart grading, handling, and packaging solutions for soft and deformable products in agile and reconfigurable lines
SS02 - Special Session: AI-Driven Industrial Equipment Product Life Cycle Boosting Agility, Sustainability and Resilience
SS03 - Special Session: Digital Modelling and Simulation for Design, Processing and Manufacturing of Advanced Materials
SS04 - Special Session: Autonomous and Self-organized Artificial Intelligent Orchestrator for a Greener Industry 4.0
SS05 - Special Session: Non-destructive inspection technologies for sustainable manufacturing: Zero Waste and Zero Defects approach
SS06 - Special Session: Advancing Human Robot Collaboration in Industry 5.0
SS07 - Special Session: Urban digital and ecological transformation – an IT-engineering perspective
SS08 - Special Session: AI, Data, and Robotics for a Sustainable Food Supply Chain
SS09 - Special Session: Business Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Optimization
SS10 - Special Session: AI for Smart Engineering
SS11 - Special Session: Advanced technical solutions for building management and energy monitoring
SS12 - Special Session: Advancing the European Green Deal: Integrating EDIHs and Innovation Ecosystems for Sustainable Transformation
SS13 - Special Session: Manufacturing-As-A-Service (MaaS) and Smart Manufacturing Networks: A New Era of Supply Chain Resilience
SS14 - Special Session: Cognitive Computing Continuum
16 Mar 2025: Full Paper Submission
31 Mar 2025: Paper Notification of Acceptance
16 Mar 2025: Full Paper Submission
31 Mar 2025: Paper Notification of Acceptance
16 Mar 2025: Full Paper Submission
31 Mar 2025: Paper Notification of Acceptance
16 Mar 2025: Full Paper Submission
31 Mar 2025: Paper Notification of Acceptance
16 Mar 2025: Full Paper Submission
31 Mar 2025: Paper Notification of Acceptance
16 Mar 2025: Full Paper Submission
31 Mar 2025: Paper Notification of Acceptance
16 Mar 2025: Full Paper Submission
31 Mar 2025: Paper Notification of Acceptance
16 Mar 2025: Full Paper Submission
31 Mar 2025: Paper Notification of Acceptance
16 Mar 2025: Full Paper Submission
31 Mar 2025: Paper Notification of Acceptance
16 Mar 2025: Full Paper Submission
31 Mar 2025: Paper Notification of Acceptance
16 Mar 2025: Full Paper Submission
31 Mar 2025: Paper Notification of Acceptance
Entrepreneurship constitutes an important factor for economic growth, societal progression as well as individual self-realization. It is broadly defined as an activity that involves the discovery, evaluation and exploitation of opportunities to introduce new goods and services, ways of organizing, markets, processes, and raw materials. In recent years, there has been an increasing call for data-driven and evidence-based research to help understanding how entrepreneurial activities can best be supported, what components and surrounding factors make successful entrepreneurial ecosystems and what established companies can learn from entrepreneurial activities. Moreover, the exploration of opportunities from emerging technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, quantum computing, etc.) has gained traction, investigating how deep tech start-ups contribute to solving complex social and environmental challenges such as climate change, human health, advances systems and infrastructure. This special track comprises four sessions focusing on different areas in the entrepreneurship research field. Each session invites high-quality papers contributing to data-driven and impact-oriented research in the entrepreneurship field using new methods, novel datasets or novel perspectives on established datasets and focusing on the impact generated by or for the entrepreneurial activities to be investigated.

Alfândega Porto Congress Center
Porto, Portugal